I don't do much in the way of political commentary here, but I was listening to the news on NPR today and heard something that made me want to bash my head against the wall.

As some of you may know, Michigan screwed itself, primarily speaking, by moving its Democratic primary up this year.  Supposedly so it would "count" (the complaint being that earlier primaries often carry a disproportionate weight for the constituency that are voting).  This was against Democratic party rules, everyone knew it was against Democratic party rules and they did it anyway.  Mostly because everyone assumed the party would cut some slack somewhere along the line and seat the delegates.

Except that all the major candidates took their names off the ballot, because it was unsanctioned.  All except Hillary Clinton.  Back then, she claimed it was because she got her paperwork in too late. 

As the only major candidate with her name on the ballot (supposedly, then, against her wishes), she won.  Surprise.

Now months have passed and the Michigan Democrats are trying to figure out a way to get the party to seat their delegates.  The latest proposal, according to the story I heard today, was that they would split the delegates evenly between the candidates.

The Clinton camp rejected this.  They insist that all the delegates she "won" in the unsanctioned primary -- the one that Hillary supposedly didn't want her name on the ballot for anyway -- should be given to her.

Let me be clear, here -- I've got nothing against Hillary Clinton (well, except, perhaps, that her campaign has gone more negative than I think it should).  I'm not a rabid Obama supporter.  I'm not anti-Clinton.

But the idea that she's so desperate for delegates that her campaign would be acting like the Michigan primary results, as they stand, are anything but a farce, is hilarious.  At least in that whole "I'm laughing so that I don't cry" kind of way.